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From the ABA Legal Technology Resource CenterFri, 22 Feb 2019 17:18:43 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3Watch: Keeping Up with Legal Technology and Innovation in 2019https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/12/watch-keeping-up-with-legal-technology-and-innovation-in-2019/
https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/12/watch-keeping-up-with-legal-technology-and-innovation-in-2019/#respondFri, 07 Dec 2018 13:00:53 +0000http://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/?p=9463In this video, you'll hear from David Curle shares the latest in artificial intelligence developments, the growing use of data analytics in legal practice and the business of law, new legal services business models, and much more.

]]>In this video, you’ll hear from David Curle, the director of the technology and innovation platform at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, as he shares the latest in artificial intelligence developments, the growing use of data analytics in legal practice and the business of law, new legal services business models, and much more.

David will also include a review of some of the best experts, blogs, publications, and events that lawyers can follow to keep up on the latest tech developments.

Learning Objectives:

Identify where new technologies and innovations affect the legal industry

David supports Thomson Reuters’ Legal business with research and thought leadership about the legal technology and innovation ecosystem, and the changing legal services industry.

Prior to joining Thomson Reuters in 2013, he led coverage of the global legal information market for the research and analysis firm Outsell, Inc., tracking industry performance and trends. He is a regular contributor to the Legal Executive Institute blog and speaker at legal industry events. He has a JD from the University of Minnesota Law School and a BA in History from Lawrence University.

Please note: this is a non-CLE session.
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]]>https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/12/watch-keeping-up-with-legal-technology-and-innovation-in-2019/feed/0Keeping Up with Legal Technology and Innovation in 2019https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/11/legal-technology-and-innovation-in-2019/
https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/11/legal-technology-and-innovation-in-2019/#respondFri, 30 Nov 2018 14:00:27 +0000http://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/?p=9399Join us for a quick tour through some of the frontiers of legal technology and innovation in the legal industry.

Hear from the director of the technology and innovation platform at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute as he shares the latest in artificial intelligence developments, the growing use of data analytics in legal practice and the business of law, new legal services business models, and much more.

David will also include a review of some of the best experts, blogs, publications, and events that lawyers can follow to keep up on the latest tech developments.

Learning Objectives:

Identify where new technologies and innovations affect the legal industry

David supports Thomson Reuters’ Legal business with research and thought leadership about the legal technology and innovation ecosystem, and the changing legal services industry.

Prior to joining Thomson Reuters in 2013, he led coverage of the global legal information market for the research and analysis firm Outsell, Inc., tracking industry performance and trends. He is a regular contributor to the Legal Executive Institute blog and speaker at legal industry events. He has a JD from the University of Minnesota Law School and a BA in History from Lawrence University.

Please note: this is a non-CLE session.
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]]>https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/11/legal-technology-and-innovation-in-2019/feed/0Watch: Innovation in Practice: People, Process and Technologyhttps://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/10/innovation-in-practice-people-process-and-technology-2/
https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/10/innovation-in-practice-people-process-and-technology-2/#respondThu, 25 Oct 2018 16:11:12 +0000http://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/?p=9268Discover the key elements of innovation initiatives in this Industry Insight webinar recording that features panelists from an in-house legal department, law firm, and law school.

]]>In this video, you will hear from panelists from an in-house legal department, law school and law firm discuss the skills necessary to keep up with exponential changes in the legal industry. They’ll discuss how innovation is impacting business, how they are facilitating data driven decisions, and how to develop the talent needed to deliver innovation.

Insights will also include best practices in the evaluation, deployment and adoption of technology within organizations when striving to produce the highest quality of work.

Learning Objectives:

Learn practical tips on how to bring innovation to legal services

Discover the key elements of innovation initiatives

Hear best practices in the evaluation, deployment, and adoption of technology

Understand the building blocks necessary to be successful

Speakers:

Wendy Curits , Orrick’s Chief Innovation Officer

For two consecutive years, Orrick has been named by the Financial Times as the Most Innovative Law Firm in North America. As Orrick’s Chief Innovation Officer, Wendy leads Orrick’s efforts to operationalize innovation through novel products, streamlined processes, technology and client consulting on tailored solutions. Wendy leads an innovation team of lawyers, technologists, developers, project managers and business professionals.

Wendy is recognized by Chambers as a leading individual, nationally, in the area of eDiscovery. She is the chair of Orrick’s eDiscovery and Information Governance Group. She has been engaged by Fortune 100 companies and major financial institutions to create and deploy eDiscovery and records management programs. Wendy has substantial experience in pharmaceutical, product liability and class action litigation. Her litigation experience includes multiple trials, supervision of regional and local counsel, management of complex discovery and meet-and-confer negotiations.

Tariq Abdullah supports Walmart as Senior Director of Legal Operations. His team leads initiatives in data & analytics, AI, technology, and organizational innovation to enable data-driven decision making and operational efficiency. They drive transformation from in-house law firm to legal business unit.

Tariq joined Walmart in October 2013, leading teams in the Health & Wellness Compliance group. During his tenure he received the Walmart Merchandising People’s Choice Award. He is committed to expanding the awareness and impact of legal operations teams and the industry. Critical to this is his focus on leveraging data and leading edge technologies that drive legal department transformation from in-house law firm to legal business unit.

Daryl Shetterly, Director of Orrick Analytics

Daryl manages a team of 20+ tech-savvy staff attorneys, 100+ contract attorneys, assistants that handle project management, analysts that perform big data analysis and statistical modeling, and technologists that build bots, scripts, and tools that increase quality and reduce human effort. Daryl’s team designs processes, workflows, and templates that are used by dedicated project managers to deliver project plans and enable data-driven budgeting and decision-making. As an early adopter of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Daryl’s team uses technology to augment due diligence and drafting tasks, TAR and continuous active learning for eDiscovery, and advanced tools for concept and sentiment analysis.

Jim Lupo Professor of Practice Director, Center for Practice Engagement and Innovation at Northwestern University School of Law

Jim joined the Northwestern Law faculty in 2003. While in private practice, he handled complex commercial litigation matters on behalf of insurance companies and other financial institutions. His cases included risk management disputes involving non-medical malpractice liability, directors and officers’ coverage, environmental impairment exposure and risk sharing litigation. Additionally, Jim taught legal writing and advocacy at Loyola University Chicago School of Law where he also lectured in contracts for Loyola’s Business Law Institute. His area of research interest is in exploring the relationships between legal rhetoric, judicial decision-making and social change.

Sponsored by:

Please note: this is a non-CLE session.
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]]>https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/10/innovation-in-practice-people-process-and-technology-2/feed/0Innovation in Practice: People, Process and Technologyhttps://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/10/innovation-in-practice-people-process-and-technology/
https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/10/innovation-in-practice-people-process-and-technology/#respondWed, 17 Oct 2018 15:03:25 +0000http://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/?p=9210In Innovation in Practice: People, Process and Technology, you will hear from panelists from an in-house legal department, law school and law firm discuss the skills necessary to keep up with exponential changes in the legal industry and how to develop the talent needed to deliver innovation.

]]>In Innovation in Practice: People, Process and Technology, you will hear from panelists from an in-house legal department, law school and law firm discuss the skills necessary to keep up with exponential changes in the legal industry. They’ll discuss how innovation is impacting business, how they are facilitating data driven decisions, and how to develop the talent needed to deliver innovation.

Insights will also include best practices in the evaluation, deployment and adoption of technology within organizations when striving to produce the highest quality of work.

Learning Objectives:

Learn practical tips on how to bring innovation to legal services

Discover the key elements of innovation initiatives

Hear best practices in the evaluation, deployment, and adoption of technology

For two consecutive years, Orrick has been named by the Financial Times as the Most Innovative Law Firm in North America. As Orrick’s Chief Innovation Officer, Wendy leads Orrick’s efforts to operationalize innovation through novel products, streamlined processes, technology and client consulting on tailored solutions. Wendy leads an innovation team of lawyers, technologists, developers, project managers and business professionals.

Wendy is recognized by Chambers as a leading individual, nationally, in the area of eDiscovery. She is the chair of Orrick’s eDiscovery and Information Governance Group. She has been engaged by Fortune 100 companies and major financial institutions to create and deploy eDiscovery and records management programs. Wendy has substantial experience in pharmaceutical, product liability and class action litigation. Her litigation experience includes multiple trials, supervision of regional and local counsel, management of complex discovery and meet-and-confer negotiations.

Tariq Abdullah supports Walmart as Senior Director of Legal Operations. His team leads initiatives in data & analytics, AI, technology, and organizational innovation to enable data-driven decision making and operational efficiency. They drive transformation from in-house law firm to legal business unit.

Tariq joined Walmart in October 2013, leading teams in the Health & Wellness Compliance group. During his tenure he received the Walmart Merchandising People’s Choice Award. He is committed to expanding the awareness and impact of legal operations teams and the industry. Critical to this is his focus on leveraging data and leading edge technologies that drive legal department transformation from in-house law firm to legal business unit.

Daryl Shetterly, Director of Orrick Analytics

Daryl manages a team of 20+ tech-savvy staff attorneys, 100+ contract attorneys, assistants that handle project management, analysts that perform big data analysis and statistical modeling, and technologists that build bots, scripts, and tools that increase quality and reduce human effort. Daryl’s team designs processes, workflows, and templates that are used by dedicated project managers to deliver project plans and enable data-driven budgeting and decision-making. As an early adopter of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Daryl’s team uses technology to augment due diligence and drafting tasks, TAR and continuous active learning for eDiscovery, and advanced tools for concept and sentiment analysis.

Jim Lupo Professor of Practice Director, Center for Practice Engagement and Innovation at Northwestern University School of Law

Jim joined the Northwestern Law faculty in 2003. While in private practice, he handled complex commercial litigation matters on behalf of insurance companies and other financial institutions. His cases included risk management disputes involving non-medical malpractice liability, directors and officers’ coverage, environmental impairment exposure and risk sharing litigation. Additionally, Jim taught legal writing and advocacy at Loyola University Chicago School of Law where he also lectured in contracts for Loyola’s Business Law Institute. His area of research interest is in exploring the relationships between legal rhetoric, judicial decision-making and social change.

Sponsored by:

Please note: this is a non-CLE session.
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]]>https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/10/innovation-in-practice-people-process-and-technology/feed/0How Locke Lord LLP is using Westlaw Edge to Stay Competitivehttps://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/10/using-westlaw-edge-to-stay-competitive/
https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/10/using-westlaw-edge-to-stay-competitive/#respondThu, 11 Oct 2018 14:00:00 +0000http://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/?p=9189Learn how Westlaw Edge provides you with the fastest answers and most valuable insights via the next generation of legal search

]]>Locke Lord LLP understands putting clients first and running a profitable business are not mutually exclusive. Point number one of the firm’s mission statement says as much – We will serve our clients’ interests first. Our firm’s success will follow.

It can be a delicate balance, and achieving both goals requires all contributors to be at the top of their game at all times. That means working smarter and minimizing wasted time and effort. Firms need to deliver services in a manner that provides maximum value to their clients and keeps them coming back.

As a respected national law firm with global reach, Locke Lord serves clients around the world in a wide range of litigation and transactional matters. Knowing that technology is one of the keys to attracting and retaining clients, the firm has recently invested in Westlaw Edge, an AI-powered legal research platform.

Procuring the Right Tools to Meet the Firm’s Goals and Accommodate Client Demands

The team at Locke Lord was among the first to realize that using technologies powered by artificial intelligence would provide the efficiencies necessary to help them accomplish routine tasks faster so their professionals could focus on higher value activities. As Art Anthony, a partner in the firm’s litigation group, explains, “My primary consideration in evaluating new technologies is the value-add to the firm and to the client in terms of efficiency. Clients are looking for their law firms to be efficient with the delivery of legal services and to minimize costs where possible.”

Nancy Scibelli Bouthilet, Director of Information Services at Locke Lord, is responsible for the firm’s operations and library department. Part of Bouthilet’s role is evaluating and implementing new technologies. “There were several features we saw in Westlaw Edge that really fell in line with what we’re trying to do as a firm in terms of making sure we’re utilizing the best technologies available and that we are leveraging those to provide better legal research services,” she said.

Productivity is Key

Two associates at the firm, Sarah-Michelle Stearns and Mario Nguyen, appreciate how the AI-powered features of Westlaw Edge allow them to find answers quickly and provide deeper insights in key conversations. As Stearns explains, “Getting the correct answers faster to your partners puts you in line for the next project and allows you to spend your time on other tasks you might not have gotten to yet.” Nguyen adds, “Westlaw Edge has really sped up the way I do my research and increased the confidence I have in my execution. I found direct, relevant cites that have not been overruled, and I have been able to walk to partners and say, ‘Here is the research, it’s good to go.’”

How Can Westlaw Edge Help You?

For more than 140 years, Westlaw® has delivered ground-breaking best-in-class technology fueled by unmatched editorial expertise, and we’ve done it again. Learn how Westlaw Edge provides you with the fastest answers and most valuable insights via the next generation of legal search, integrated litigation analytics, the most powerful citator, and more in our Westlaw Edge webinar.

Watch this 30-minute, on demand webinar, An In-Depth Look at Westlaw Edge: The Most Intelligent Legal Research Platform Ever to hear more about how Westlaw Edge can help increase your efficiency and accuracy when it comes to legal research. Chris Schoenbauer, manager on the Westlaw product management team, walks through the new features and demonstrates how the best in legal research just got better.

]]>Thomson Reuters Westlaw is the legal research service that generations of attorneys and legal teams have depended on to work more efficiently and with total confidence. Law firms today are competing against one another to provide high-quality results at a lower cost to meet client expectations for efficiency. In ongoing research with customers, Thomson Reuters found that complex legal research tasks take an average of six hours, with some taking substantially longer. Attorneys also report that with deadline-driven work, they often felt that they may have missed something important. “We’ve been working with hundreds of attorneys to deeply understand how some research tasks can still take many hours to complete, as well as how mistakes are made, even by experienced lawyers,” said Mike Dahn, senior vice president, Westlaw Product Management.

“We brought together a team of Thomson Reuters research scientists with expertise in AI and legal data with our attorneys who best understand our exclusive collection of law summaries, legal classifications, and legal citation relationships, and had them work with our most talented product designers to address the areas where both new lawyers and experienced practitioners want better tools,” added Dahn. “The result is Westlaw Edge.”

In order to give law firms a leg up in the competitive legal environment, Thomson Reuters created a new version of Westlaw to enable lawyers to move through routine work much faster and help even experienced practitioners avoid mistakes when working on something complex. In addition, Westlaw Edge offers attorneys new insights they’ve never had access to before.

Westlaw Edge represents Thomson Reuters’ largest investment in AI since 2010 and was developed with attorneys and technologists at the Thomson Reuters Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing working side-by-side. By combining artificial intelligence and data with the experience, knowledge, and judgment of modern lawyers, firms and legal departments can take their work to the next level.

Multiple Am Law 100 firms, including Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Shearman & Sterling, and Locke Lord have already started using Westlaw Edge. According to Wendy Butler Curtis, Orrick’s chief innovation officer, “As part of our innovation strategy, we are continually looking at new ways to streamline processes, adopt technologies, and empower our teams. Westlaw Edge is an important part of our innovation toolkit.”

Westlaw Edge is the latest advancement in legal research, providing legal professionals with the next generation of AI-driven legal search, exclusive new warnings for laws that are no longer valid, unrivaled litigation analytics, and sophisticated new research tools that help legal professionals deliver results to clients faster and more accurately.

Want to learn more about the features available on Westlaw Edge? Read the full article now. No registration is required.

]]>With increasing data, workloads, and client demands unlike ever before, it is even more critical to make sure you understand how legal technology can give your practice every advantage. In fact, half of law firms do not believe they project a distinct, compelling value that differentiates them from competitors. Don’t let that be you. Use big data and artificial intelligence to build your reputation as an innovator and positively impact your client’s view of your firm. With data-driven litigation analytics on judges, courts, attorneys, law firm, and case types – tailored to your needs – you can quickly assess the case to build the strongest litigation strategy and better manage client expectations.

In this video, you will hear from the Chief Knowledge and Client Value Officer at Shearman & Sterling on how they are leveraging big data and litigation analytics to build a stronger case strategy for better management of client expectations. You will also get the inside scoop from a Product Developer at Thomson Reuters to see how they are doing big data differently to improve your practice.

Learning Objectives:

Learn how top law firms are advancing their practice with big data and litigation analytics

Discover new legal technology to improve the efficiency of your practice

Ask your questions to experts in legal practice and product development

Meredith Williams-Range

Chief Knowledge and Client Value Officer

Shearman and Sterling LLP

Meredith is an attorney with more than 15 years of knowledge management experience at Baker Donelson in Memphis, Tennessee, where she served as Chief Knowledge Management Officer and as a Knowledge Management Attorney. A widely recognized presenter, author and blogger, she was named one of 2016’s top 10 women in legal technology by the American Bar Association and is the Immediate Past President of the Board of Directors for the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA).

In her current role, Meredith leads the firm’s knowledge management, legal project management and other teams that are focused on increasing efficiency and client value through improving access to data and information, streamlining process and technology.

Sponsored by:

Please note: this is a non-CLE session.
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]]>With increasing data, workloads, and client demands unlike ever before, it is even more critical to make sure you understand how legal technology can give your practice every advantage. In fact, half of law firms do not believe they project a distinct, compelling value that differentiates them from competitors. Don’t let that be you. Use big data and artificial intelligence to build your reputation as an innovator and positively impact your client’s view of your firm. With data-driven litigation analytics on judges, courts, attorneys, law firm, and case types – tailored to your needs – you can quickly assess the case to build the strongest litigation strategy and better manage client expectations.

In Big Results With Big Data, you will hear from the Chief Knowledge and Client Value Officer at Shearman & Sterling on how they are leveraging big data and litigation analytics to build a stronger case strategy for better management of client expectations. You will also get the inside scoop from a Product Developer at Thomson Reuters to see how they are doing big data differently to improve your practice.

Ask your questions to experts in legal practice and product development

Meredith Williams-Range

Chief Knowledge and Client Value Officer

Shearman and Sterling LLP

Meredith is an attorney with more than 15 years of knowledge management experience at Baker Donelson in Memphis, Tennessee, where she served as Chief Knowledge Management Officer and as a Knowledge Management Attorney. A widely recognized presenter, author and blogger, she was named one of 2016’s top 10 women in legal technology by the American Bar Association and is the Immediate Past President of the Board of Directors for the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA).

In her current role, Meredith leads the firm’s knowledge management, legal project management and other teams that are focused on increasing efficiency and client value through improving access to data and information, streamlining process and technology.

Sponsored by:

Please note: this is a non-CLE session.
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]]>https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/07/big-results-with-big-data/feed/0The White Glove Treatment of the Firm Central Customer Experiencehttps://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/03/the-white-glove-treatment-of-the-firm-central-customer-experience/
https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/03/the-white-glove-treatment-of-the-firm-central-customer-experience/#respondFri, 30 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0000http://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/?p=8445Thomson Reuters provides a unique and differentiated experience with its team of Firm Central personal trainers who put on the white gloves to coach the entire law firm through the on-boarding process and beyond.

]]>Did you know that 40% of an attorney’s time in a small practice is spent not practicing law? Adopting a practice management solution can be an effective way to minimize your administrative time, allowing you to spend more time practicing law. Sometimes, however, the thought of learning a new system can seem daunting, and one you’d rather avoid. Your fears can be eliminated by choosing with its white glove treatment for all Firm Central customers.

Thomson Reuters provides a unique and differentiated experience with its team of Firm Central personal trainers who put on the white gloves to coach the entire law firm through the on-boarding process and beyond. This level of customer service is enhanced with training and data migration through customer retention.

To make the product integration efficient, each user is handheld through these steps in our process:

First, the team sets up a timeline for training based on the attorney’s calendar

Next, in a kick-off call, the implementations team welcomes the customer and listens to the attorney’s goals, concerns, and timeline for product integration and training.

The integration process continues with data migration so nothing is left behind.

A series of training meetings occur for as long as it takes to ramp everyone up the learning curve and to make the customer comfortable.

Finally, the handoff to a life-long product retention specialist happens and the customer service experience continues.

Meet Your Firm Central Implementations Team

The Thomson Reuters team in charge of onboarding takes great pride in their white-glove coaching services to welcome new small law firms into the Firm Central family. Led by Jessie Dieltz, team lead on the Firm Central implementations team, she’s joined by seven others including Colby Hawley, data migration project manager.

“When I step in, the law firm has an opportunity to use the data migration process as a way to clean files and eliminate obscure data prior to migrating to Firm Central,” said Colby Hawley, Thomson Reuters project manager for data migration. “Out of the gate, we take a methodical approach to migration and look at security, privacy, and sensitivity of the data itself. If necessary, we teach the customer to migrate highly sensitive data themselves.”

When a new Firm Central customer needs to export data, manually add clients into the software or fully migrate from a competitor product, then Hawley gets involved early in the on-boarding process. Data migration is a huge white glove service and selling point of Firm Central.

“Our approach to educating new customers about Firm Central is like a warm welcome with continual nurturing until the student is ready to fly solo,” said Jessie Dieltz, Thomson Reuters Team Leader for project implementation. “We never lose sight of the customer and continue to hand them off from one team member to another until all questions are answered. No other company focuses on the customer experience after the sale like the Thomson Reuters Firm Central implementations team.”

very high on satisfaction ratings, and it’s because of the remarkable level of comfort and nurturing customers receive when choosing to buy Firm Central. When you know that skilled professionals are available to impart their product knowledge after the sale, wouldn’t you want to be a Firm Central customer, too?

]]>https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/03/the-white-glove-treatment-of-the-firm-central-customer-experience/feed/0Watch: Using Legal Research Strategically to Differentiate Your Firmhttps://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/01/watch-using-legal-research-strategically-differentiate-firm/
https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2018/01/watch-using-legal-research-strategically-differentiate-firm/#respondThu, 18 Jan 2018 23:18:09 +0000http://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/?p=8183In this video, Using Legal Research Strategically to Differentiate Your Firm, we will discuss how to approach your legal research to save time and money.

]]>When you consider that we live in an instant gratification society where technological advances are only outpaced by expectations, it should come as no surprise that law firms face unrelenting pressure from clients to provide higher quality service at a lower cost in a fraction of the time. This session takes a look at how today’s most competitive law firms differentiate their services by using a strategic approach to their legal research technology.

In this video, David Curle and Roy Martin discuss how you can save time and money by exploring the ways in which researchers can maximize the AI features that are already built into the legal research products they use today.

Learning Objectives:

Save time and money by reinventing your approach to legal research

Provide accurate answers and meet client demands faster

Uncover additional on-point documents you may have missed

Differentiate your firm by spending more time on higher value tasks

Sponsored by:

Please note: this is a non-CLE session.
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